George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

(18561950)

Works:

• Androcles and the Lion (1912)

• Arms and the Man (1894)

• Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce (1916)

• Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (1921)

• Candida (1898)

• Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)

• Fanny’s First Play (1911)

• Heartbreak House (1913-1916)

• How He Lied to Her Husband (1905)

• Major Barbara (1905)

• Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (1903)

• Misalliance (1910)

• Pygmalion (1912)

• The Devil’s Disciple (1897)

• The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906)

• The Impossibilities of Anarchism (1895)

• The Man of Destiny (1898)

• You Never Can Tell (1897)

Quotes:

• George Bernard Shaw: Quotations

Filmography as Writer:

Pygmalion (1938)

Pygmalion
1938
Director: Anthony AsquithLeslie Howard
Starring: Leslie HowardWendy Hiller

 

 

Major Barbara
1941
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison

 

 

Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains

 

 

My Fair Lady (1964)My Fair Lady
1964
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Audrey HepburnRex Harrison

 

 

Shaw in Literature:

• Chesterton, G.K. (1874-1936): George Bernard Shaw (English)

Born July 26 1856 Dublin (Ireland)
Died November 2 1950 Ayot St. Lawrence (England)
Cause of death Accident (fall)
Occupation Journalist Literary critic
Occupation Novelist Playwright
Occupation Screenwriter Writer
Awards Academy Award Nobel Prize for Literature (1925)